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To: LibWhacker
One certainly has to take a lot on faith to believe all of the nuances of the Big Bang theory. GN-z11 is so far away that the light from it left 13.3 billion years ago. The laws of physics tell us that mass can't travel faster than the speed of light, yet somehow GN-z11 managed to get that far away from us, even though we started out at the same point at the time of the Big Bang, 13.8 billion years ago.

Oh wait, we can explain that by the fact that during the Big Bang "expansion", the laws of physics didn't apply after all. That explains everything. Then, what laws did apply?

7 posted on 03/04/2016 5:18:39 AM PST by norwaypinesavage (The Stone Age did not end because we ran out of stones)
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To: norwaypinesavage

It’s not that the laws of physics didn’t apply, but that during inflation, space itself supposedly expanded faster than the speed of light. No laws were broken.


9 posted on 03/04/2016 5:24:10 AM PST by LibWhacker
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To: norwaypinesavage; LibWhacker

Inflation seems a pretty good theory. And this appears to be pretty early large scale aggregation of matter.

I wonder how it eventually evolved and whether it’s still out there.


28 posted on 03/04/2016 12:48:16 PM PST by onedoug
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